Erratic Passenger Has Heart Attack

A passenger who jumped out of a moving airplane as it prepared to take off was hospitalized after having a heart attack in jail Friday, his sister said.

Troy Rigby, 28, of Pompano Beach, was detained on the tarmac Monday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport by officers who used a stun gun to subdue him.

Rigby was charged formally Tuesday with three counts of battery, trespassing, resisting arrest and criminal mischief. He was being held on $8,000 bail and taken to an intensive psychiatric unit of a Broward County jail.

Deputies found Rigby, who was not breathing, on the floor of his cell, said sheriff's spokesman Elliot Cohen.

Rigby's sister Merlene said doctors called her Friday and said her brother suffered a massive heart attack and was in intensive care.

Merlene Rigby said her brother is a diagnosed bipolar schizophrenic. He allegedly had not been taking his medication and should not have been on that flight to New Jersey, she said.